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Reaching for the sky : empowering girls through education / Urvashi Sahni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sahni, Urvashi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prerna Girls School.
- Girls--Education--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Girls.
- Girls' schools--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Girls' schools.
- Sex discrimination in education--India.
- Sex discrimination in education.
- India.
- India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations, portraits, map
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Since 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, has written a compelling narrative of how this modest school in northeast India has changed the lives of more than 5,000 girls and their families. Most important, it is through the perspectives of the girls themselves, rather than through a remote academic viewpoint, that Prerna's success unfolds. The book focuses on the importance of education in bringing about gender equality in a patriarchal society. It shows how girls learn to be equal and autonomous persons in school as part of their official curriculum and how they use this learning to transform their lives and those of their families. The book's central argument is that education can be truly transformative if it addresses the everyday reality of girls' lives and responds to their special needs and challenges with respect and care. The example of just one relatively small school in one corner of India, the message and the stories it tells will inspire anyone concerned about the necessity of girls' education, especially in developing countries. The lives of the girls at Prerna Girls School are largely representative of those of millions living in poor regions in countries where patriarchal structures and norms prevail.
- Contents:
- Letting girls learn
- The girls' own stories
- Education myself : valuable lessons for self and others
- The story of Prerna
- Building a universe of care
- Enabling learning : building a web of support
- Developing a feminist consciousness : dialogical circles of empowerment
- - Finding self, finding home : using drama for self-work
- Empowerment as a social act : from self-work to social work
- Learning outcomes and beyond
- Scaling Prerna
- Reframing girls' education
- Epilogue: Educating boys for gender justice
- Appendixes. A. Caste in India : a brief note. B. Methodology. C. Historical backdrop of girls' education
- Notes:
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780815730392
- 081573039X
- OCLC:
- 1004388709
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